AFT-IFT Local 1. 30,000 educators dedicated to the schools Chicago students deserve. Living rent-free in education reform minds since 2010. RT ≠ endorsement.
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This is what solidarity looks like! From powerful speeches to unwavering energy, our rally showcased the strength of educators and allies united for justice. 💪🏽
We’re building a brighter future for our students, schools, and communities.
On Veterans Day, CTU honors every member and every school family who has served. You stood up for this country, and today you stand with our students and with each other. We're proud to call you union family.
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We know Tom Dart means well. But taking a bus that hauled Black people to jail, sending it to 60 schools without libraries and calling it "literacy" loses the plot. Something is wrong when a jail offers student services like a library before their own neighborhood schools do.
We've rallied lawmakers, walked picket lines and gone on hunger strikes so students could have healthcare, mental health services, libraries and restorative justice. Lawmakers ignored our school communities, yet they still found money for the criminal justice system. Our students deserve these resources in the first place, not as a second chance program run by corrections.
Fund our schools, not cages.
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A school closed to students, but open for voting.
On Election Day, we visited the former EPIC Academy in South Chicago, a unionized charter school that closed in June despite educators and community members fighting to keep it open.
The building may have closed as a school, but the community's need for fully funded neighborhood schools hasn't gone anywhere.
As Chicago enters a new chapter with its first fully elected school board, the question remains: "Will we invest in our neighborhood schools or continue to close them?"
Our communities deserve schools that stay open for students, not just Election Day.
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“It didn't pay off." The @Suntimes @WBEZ found outside groups spent $12 million trying to beat the educators and parents we endorsed for school board, and in district after district their most expensive bets lost.
That’s what real people power looks like.
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Happy Diwali to the CTU members, students, and families celebrating across Chicago. May this Festival of Lights, which marks the triumph of light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance, bring you warmth, joy, and a bright year ahead. 🪔
For weeks, billionaires poured money into telling Chicago what to do with our students. Voters didn't buy it.
On FOX 32, CTU and IFT President Stacy Davis Gates explained that the agenda now is the one Karen Zaccor and Debby Pope won on: better school lunches, small class sizes, wraparound services in every school, and above all, the funding our school communities are owed.
“Tuesday was a long time coming.”
That’s how IFT and CTU President Stacy Davis Gates described what it meant to cast a ballot in Chicago’s first fully elected school board election. After years of fighting to put school decisions in the hands of families, that day finally came.
We showed up. Chicagoans showed up. And we made history.
The vote is behind us, but the fight for our students isn’t. Universal pre-K. Fresh food and better meals. Youth jobs and career pathways. Fully funded community schools. Every one of these is still worth fighting for.
Watch the full convo on WTTW News!
From Chicago to France, solidarity knows no borders.
The Chicago Teachers Union stands with French teachers and trade unions on strike today, demanding higher wages, fully funded public services, smaller class sizes, more school staffing and an end to austerity measures that put workers and students last.
Their fight is our fight. Whether in Chicago or France, educators and working people deserve the resources, respect and working conditions they need to thrive.
An injury to one is an injury to all. Solidarity with our union siblings in France! ✊
Our students need nurses, counselors, and fully funded schools. Instead, billions keep flowing to Palantir, Boeing, and endless war. CTU is proud to stand with About Face: Veterans Against the War and our union siblings at this year's Antiwar Veterans Day Ceremony.
Join us Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 11 AM at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 24 E Wacker Drive on the Riverwalk.
Congratulations to Public School Champion Connie Anderson for winning their re-election to the Chicago School Board!
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Congratulations to Public School Champion Karen Zaccor for winning their re-election to the Chicago School Board!
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Congratulations to Public School Champion Norma Rios-Sierra for winning their re-election to the Chicago School Board!
Congratulations to Public School Champion Debby Pope for winning their re-election to the Chicago School Board!
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Congratulations to Public School Champion Ebony DeBerry for winning their re-election to the Chicago School Board!
Congratulations to Public School Champion Claudia Peralta for winning their election to the Chicago School Board!
Thank you to everyone who voted and helped elect Public School Champions. Thank you to the canvassers, organizers, volunteers, CTU members, and everyone who made sure Chicagoans knew about this historic election. The election may be over, but our work is not. We stay committed to building the schools our students deserve. Now, let’s get to work.
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They spent a million dollars a week. They still couldn’t win the argument.
Public School Champions are headed to the Chicago Board of Education in January: educators, parents and organizers who know our schools from the inside.
They have the money. We have each other, and we have the argument.
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One hour. That's all that's left to elect Public School Champions. Remember: If you're in line by 7, you can still vote. Don't leave the line.
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Two hours left! There is still time to make a plan to vote. Find your closest polling site at publicschoolchampions.com.
Don’t miss your opportunity to make history by voting for Chicago's first fully elected school board.
